Chris Smith
1 min readJun 21, 2024

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Hmm, well I did read your article. My immediate reaction is to be surprised you start out with a (correct) criticism of democracies that manipulate the voting process to remain in power, and end with advocating that we give everyone a literal quiz about their political views and weight their votes based on how much they agree with the official responses. Unless I am missing something, you seem to be doing this unironically.

I understand that you're trying to control for this with the comments about scoring this quiz with AI. This is a fundamental misunderstanding that I see very commonly: believing that something is fair just because it's automated or involves an algorithm. As someone who has spent years working at both YouTube and Facebook on engineering problems around fairness in artificial intelligence, I guarantee that AI is not a way to guarantee fairness. If anything, it's the opposite!

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Chris Smith
Chris Smith

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Software engineer, volunteer K-12 math and computer science teacher, author of the CodeWorld platform, amateur ring theorist, and Haskell enthusiast.

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